The house we were renting had an electrical fire 2 and a half months ago. We decided to buy a house. American Equity Mortgage made the home buying process a complete nightmare, so much that we decided to find a new lender. Our mortgage application was not put in till 3 weeks after we signed our contract. Our loan office told us "he dropped the ball on our mortgage". I called and spoke to his manager, they assigned us a new loan officer and our original loan officer resigned. Our new loan officer tells us that we need 3000 more down then they told us 2 days prior and have a week to get it. We switched loan companies and couldn't be happier. I wouldn't suggest AEM to my worst enemy. read more